It's not something that's out of reach for a web dev. It might seem like an insurmountable task, but if you break it down, you can digest it easier. ML is just

It's not something that's out of reach for a web dev. It might seem like an insurmountable task, but if you break it down, you can digest it easier. ML is just math. We're at a point where you don't even have to completely grok the math to apply ML techniques productively. If you want somewhere to start and need a project idea, read up on how to build a simple binary classifier. The "hard" work is building good training and validation sets if you use a ML framework.